VIDEO : Stephen King?s ?Tommyknockers? Movie Adaptation Gets Writer Jeremy Slater

Writer of Fox?s The Exorcist, Jeremy Slater, has been hired to write the screenplay for ?Tommyknockers,? a feature film based on Stephen King?s 1987 sci-fi horror novel.
SFGate reports, James Wan, who is in post-production on ?Aquaman? and produces ?The Conjuring? franchise, will produce through his Atomic Monster banner.
Universal won the rights and beat out aggressive bids from Sony and Netflix.
?The Tommyknockers? is about the residents of Haven, Maine, who experience changes from a metal object that turns out to be an extension of a long-buried alien spacecraft. Once it?s exposed, the spacecraft releases an invisible gas into the atmosphere that gradually transforms people into beings similar to their alien visitors.